Canadian actor Christopher Heyerdahl has been in three of the four Twilight movies including the grand finale, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2, which opens Friday. The B.C.-born actor, who spent the ’90s living and working in Montreal, was back in one of his favourite cities this week to talk about Twilight, his TV work and why he so digs our city.

Here’s Heyerdahl’s thoughts on the nutty media attention paid to his Twilight stars Kristin Stewart and Robert Pattinson.

“Well you try to find a balance because without it, we wouldn’t be sitting here talking,” said Heyerdahl. “With a passion comes sometimes people losing control because they’re so passionate about it. Think of the Beatles. There was a lot of craziness around them but without that craziness, we wouldn’t be talking about The Beatles.”

I suggest to Heyerdahl that the fact was The Beatles didn’t really much like that craziness, it kind of drove them crazy.

“I don’t know because the great thing is that I’m of an age where for the younger set, I don’t fall into the fantasy category for most people into this genre,” says Heyerdahl. “So I can just observe the whole thing go down. But I think that’s why you’re so well-paid when you get to that level because it costs a lot of money to retain your privacy.”

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